You hear that phrase over and over but no matter how many times you hear it it’s still true.

I’m heading home for a month and I couldn’t be more excited to see my family and friends. My 27th (wow) birthday is on Saturday so I can celebrate it at home which makes me ecstatic to say the least. We have lots planned including a wedding, holidays, family time, friend time and I’m even working in the NY office of my internship.

This will be the last long break to visit NY & NJ so we are going to make this one the best. Hopefully the weather gets better because I want to just wander with my dunkin donuts coffee in hand. I can’t wait to eat sushi more than 3 times in a week, have a chopped salad for lunch, have a bagel with cream cheese and lox, dry my clothes in 30 minutes and so many other things.

I also have to study for 3 exams, write a paper and write my thesis proposal but I don’t want to be a downer right now so let’s ignore those little details of my fabulous month at home.

Expanding City: 1666-1850s

People’s City: 1850s-1940s

World City: 1950s–today

This section was the most fun. Interaction maps, artwork, fashion, etc

Interaction game and map:

Dr Martens of course:

Alternative Londoners

That was my little unorganized tour for you and if you liked this then I suggest you visit the museum yourself. I’m also hoping to make it back for the photography exhibit eventually so you’ll see a post about that soon too.

Not that much going on right now. London has gotten cold (High 30s/Low 40s). We do have trips and visitors lined up for the next couple of weeks so I promise there will be better posts coming soon. Until then enjoy these videos.

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Plan B was to book a flight to NY from Paris and spend a couple of days there as well. The next flight out was on Wednesday so we had 2 days in Paris!

Paris doesn’t need words….only photos.

On Wednesday morning we successfully flew from Paris to New York and enjoyed our time with family and friends. I don’t have any photos from the rest of our trip because my camera battery was dead and the charger was obviously left in London.

Days 2 & 3 were spent in Disneyland Park. I never thought I’d be at Disney in the cold or snow but I guess this proves you can never say never.

The first ride we went on was It’s A Small World!

We took the train around the park.

Saw cute Mickey shaped bread.

Again we went on all of the rides (even the little kiddie rides) and we never had to wait more than 30 minutes which was great! The park is smaller than Disney World and they didn’t have the turkey legs that Jon was so excited for.

We wanted to go somewhere for the weekend before heading back to NY for 3 weeks. We threw out a few ideas and decided on Disneyland Paris. We figured it would be easy to get to on the EuroStar and we could act like kids again for a couple of days.

The Eurostar was so easy. We went to St. Pancras station, jumped on the train and in 2 1/2 hours we were at Disney. We arrived at our hotel with a warm welcome.